Jonathan Biss at the Queen Elizabeth Hall

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It began with a bit of a blur, and lost its way for a fleeting moment towards the end. But Jonathan Biss’s recital turned out to be one of the most memorable and enriching so far in this season’s South Bank’s International Piano Series.

Biss has made a start on his ten-year project of recording all the Beethoven Sonatas; and it was this composer who framed an artfully programmed recital. First, the young, bounding C minor Sonata, the first of the Op 10 — and we heard it surely much as its very first audiences must have done. There was a